To be angry that ex spent half my maintenance

Ex has paid no maintenance in a year. He recently offered to pay £100 every time he is paid after a job as he is self employed. He owes me £200 and today was supposed to give the first £100. He handed over £52 plus a receipt for £48 of clothing after he claimed that Ds clothes were too small and dirty.

I am furious as the money is to be spent how I choose and is another example of his controlling behaviour. DS did not need new clothes btw.

I agree he is a dick. The person the child lives with is in the best place to decide what the child needs at that moment in time, he may be in more need of school shoes and coat than clothes and this man spending the cm on clothes he doesnt need could mean there is no money to buy much needed winter coat and shoes (can you tell my ds has gone through his school shoes already? )

I will never be able to rely on him for money now as he is self employed. I have decided to see any payments he deigns to give me as bonuses. The clothes weren't even to DS's taste either which shows how little he knows him. For example, there were two pairs of jeans. DS never wears jeans as he says they are uncomfortable. He lives in combats, jogging bottoms and shorts in the summer. There was also a horrible shirt which he would never wear, he only likes tshirts.

I was talking with my neighbour recently and she was whinging about her dp's ex kicking off because her dp hadnt paid any CM. neighbour justified this by saying "she's got a cheek, he took the dcs out last week and bought them both a game for the PS3 game at £50 each and she expects CM on top of that? Huh. Greedy bitch"